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From: rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ST Transputer
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Date: 30 Nov 90 21:12:00 GMT
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In article <1990Nov30.120037.24132@warwick.ac.uk> csual@warwick.ac.uk (Jas) writes:
[...]
>  Before I start though, I want to stress that this add-on DOES NOT yet exist,
>and may never do, it could just be vapourware but I'm going to pass it on
>anyway as it sounds pretty interesting. All this info comes from the Dec.1990
>issue of ST Format.
>
>  Atari are supposedly working on an ST-based transputer workstation "at a
>price observers believe is simply astonishing". Full tech.spec. is a long way
>off, but it is likely to attach by the DMA socket and enable the ST to run at
>15-20 MIPS, compared to the ST's 1 MIPS.
>  The price is supposed to be about 300-400 pounds, making it an incredibly
>attractive sounding graphics workstation.
>  It is NOT just a rehashed ATW, it is a completely separate project.
>  Andy Leaning of Silica (major U.K. ST dealers) is quoted as saying that the
>unit is "bobbing around on the horizon", but "nothing official".
>
>  That's about the face of it - if you want to read it with a pinch of
>salt, that's probably a good idea, but it does sound VERY interesting. And
>they are talking about a summer 1991 release...

This isn't intended as a flame, but I'd swear I heard of a rumorware
ST transputer hang-on as long ago as 1987.  I'm sure it can be done,
and perhaps someone in an Atari lab's even built them by the dozen,
but I take entire BLOCKS of salt when anyone suggests something from
Atari is "on the horizon".  (The "event horizon" of a black hole,
perhaps... :)  The TT has been "on the horizon" since '87, at least.
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